The Osceola times., 1887-10-01

4 NV. B. HERsox. formerly Q State do
tectivs, was arrested at Providence, X. Y
ON the Goth, charged with stealing $l,o"
worth Of diamonds from +. N. Harris, q
travelling salesman of ls2 Broadway, New
York, lie is accused Of taking the dia-
monds while occupying a room with har'
ris in Boston.
EMMA DRuRY, aged twelve. and VIM
Geisswein were burned and suffocated &c
,.eath in a fire In Brooklyn hat, on the
night of the 2lst
CAPRoS * WoLvERToN's four-mili al
Albany, N. Y, was burned on the 2lst,
with 100000 bushels of grain. Loss, $50,
900; insurance, 100000 Eight firemen
who were caught in an upper story OF the
burning building were rescued with dihi'
Guilty.
A. SENTEs, proprietor Of a hotel at Novi,
Mich, his wife, and two guests, were
! poisoned on the Goth by eating corned beef
bought Of q meat peddler. Senter will die.
The others will probably recover.
A NATURAL gas explosion at Oak Centre,
o., on the night OF the 2Oth, set fire TO the
flowing oil-tanks, machinery and der
ricks. The flames spread rapidly, and for
q time a disastrous coniia grafton seemed
imminent The loss will not, however,
exceed $1,000. Several persons were
badly burned, one II is thonght fatally.
THE decomposed body of Lille Hoyle,
who disappeared from Webster, Mass,
September l, was found on the 2lst, in a
barn at Oxford. The head was securely
covered, and her feet and hands were
bound with rope. II Is believed that she
was murdered and her body taken TO the
barn and concealed.
By an ocean mishap 10 the British
steamer Romeo seven people were drowned
ON August ~.
DETECTIVES In Quebec have made what
they believe most important capture by
the arrest OF Frederick Titus, charged with
forging and altering notes IN Chicago,
Albany and New York.
OK the 22d lighter loaded with seven
hun dred bales of cotton caught fire at New
York and was destroyed. The cotton was
part OF the cargoo Of the steamer Lampasas,
which arrived from Galveston en- route for
Liverpool. The loss will fall upon NAL
lory & Co., the shippers. ltwas valued at
$4,000.
AN attempt OF two union sailors 10 com
pei non-union man Ia stop work on the
barge Michigan, at Milwaukee,, Wis, on
the I'D, resulted in a shooting ARRAY, In
which Fred Pagel, one OF the aggressors,
was shot, probably fatally, by Andrew
Bieme one Of the Michgan's crew.
GRovENHuRsT, a Canadian Village, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire on the
23d.
WILLIAM Showers, Of Reading, Pa,
confesses 10 the murder OF his two grand
children. he duplicates Betsey Sergeant.
his betrothed, in the crime.
john KERNAHAN was banged at San
Francisco on the 23I for the murder Of his
sister-in-law, Martha Ann Hood, in Octo-
Der, lss5.
Ar Middletown, o., on the 23d, John
Glendenning, while intoxicated, shot and
killed John Nolan aud then shot himself,
dying an hour later. The cause OF shoot
ing was an old grudge
THOMAS MCkENNA, 1aborlng man
sixty-seven years OF age, brutally mur-
dered his wife at their home in McKees-
port, Pa, on the morning Of the 23d. She
was sleeping at the time He first struck
her on the head with an axe and then
buried knife in her heart.
JOIN NJ. ScHuRLER, who murdered his
infant child at Binghamton, n. Y, two
years ago, was sentenced on the 23d to he
hanged at Cooperstown on November 10.
A DESTRUCTIVE forest fire was reported
raging at Foley, MINI, on the 2lth.
TuE death order to the sheriff of Cook
County, ILL.,, in the case Of the condemned
Anarchists was handed down by the Su.
preme Court on the 2ith and was placed In
the hands of Sheriff Matson.
Mrs. SMITH, aged sixty-nve years, while
walking along the road at Shoals, Ind, on
the cath, stopped to light her pipe, when
her clothes caught fire, and the poor WON
an uaa hurnal Ia a rriSn